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Speaking of shuttles, I still remember the day the Challenger exploded. January 28th, 1986. I was in 8th grade science class when our teacher wheeled in a TV cart, all excited, saying we were going to watch the shuttle launch. We watched it. About a minute fifteen later, boom. You could have heard a pin drop in the classroom. After about five minutes I remember looking at my teacher -- funny, I forget his name but remember his face -- and he had a tear in his eye and said "That's the damnedest thing I've ever seen."

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Yeah, sad. Very. But me it was Columbia... Sh's been the first man created Spaceship to surf in Orbit. And for a Space and Sci-Fi fan like me that was a dream that came true. So I cried for weeks when it happened and I'm actually doing the same reminding it.

That's the disaster that has marked my brain the most of everything that happened along with Hiroshima. I'll never forget that day and leave a comment on Columbia NASA's page every year the 1rst of February.

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^^ Nice!

NASA employee and physicist Harold White is re-designing the Alcubierre Drive (a supposed loophole in Einstein's General theory for a hypothetical spaceship with Warp Drive). I thought this was an interesting piece which summed up the main ideas behind it quite clearly: http://beforeitsnews.com/space/2013/05/ m=facebook

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Neat idea, but I'm not seeing "Goodbye Big Bang," really.

To be honest I did not read the full 2,000 page paper. But from what I gather from this and other articles I've read, they're just replacing a singularity with a 4D star + a brane. The math is different, but macro-wise, I'm not seeing much of a difference.

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^ Yeah, I agree with you on the title, Azzy. I think it's just meant to be an attention grabber of the more sensational kind. The Big Bang Theory has yet to truly be shaken (if it will indeed ever be shook ).